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73rd Year - No. 250 Good Morning! It's Wednesday, July 8, 1981 8 Sections - 46 Pages - 25 Cents
O'Connor's views on issues still vague
From our wire services
WASHINGTON Sandra D. O'Connor's
opinions during her 18 months as an Arizona
appeals court judge display careful rea-soning
and use of precedent.
But they shed little light on her attitude to-ward
most of the controversial constitutional
issues she will face if she is confirmed as an
associate justice of the Supreme Court.
President Reagan announced Tuesday he
will nominate Mrs. O'Connor, a former Re-publican
majority leader of the Arizona
State Senate, as the first woman on the Su-preme
Court. Reagan said the appointment,
which would break a tradition going back to
Washington, would be "one of the proudest
legacies of my presidency."
Reagan called the 51-year-- old Mrs. O'Con-nor,
who would replace Potter Stewart, "a
person for all seasons."
The nominee is widely regarded as conser-vative
in her political outlook. But her legis-lative
record has been attacked by anti-aborti- on
groups that say she cast pro-aborti- on
votes before she became a judge. These as-sertions
have been disputed by persons who
sat with her in the Arizona Legislature.
A review of Mrs. O'Connor's 30 published
opinions for the Arizona Court of Appeals
disclosed none dealing with abortion. Nor did
any of the opinions disclose her views on
most of the other controversial constitutional
issues the Supreme Court has ruled on, such
as busing as a means of desegregating
schools, prayer in schools, the death penalty,
affirmative action and the constitutional
rights of criminal defendants.
Thus, it appears to be far too early to de-termine
whether the ideologically divided
court will become more conservative or
more liberal if and when Mrs. O'Connor fills
the vacancy created by the retirement of As-sociate
Justice Potter Stewart. Stewart has
been viewed as a moderate leaning to the
conservative side of the court's philosophical
balance.
Tuesday after Reagan had announced
Mrs. O'Connor as his choice, Attorney Gen-eral
William French Smith said O'Connor
shared the president's "overall judicial phi-losophy"
of "restraint" and deference to the
legislative branch in making law.
A recently published law review article by
Mrs. O'Connor lends some support to the at-torney
general's view.
The article, in the William and Mary Law
Review, dealt with the relationship between
state and federal courts. Mrs. O'Connor cit-ed
with approval recent Supreme Court deci-sions
requiring federal judges to defer to
some initial determinations by state court
judges.
She singled out a recent decision by Asso- -
date Justice William H. Rehnquist, her for-mer
law school classmate. This decision
holds that when a federal court considers a
constitutional challenge to a state criminal
conviction, it should ordinarily presume that
the state court's factual findings were cor-rect.
"There is no reason to assume," Mrs.
O'Connor wrote, "that state court judges
cannot and will not provide a hospitable fo-rum
in litigating federal constitutional ques-tions."
Mrs. O'Connor also suggested that in view
of the increasing caseload of the federal
(See COURT, Page 14A)
Sally Staplcton
Owner of 100 dogs, Arnold Brady displays a particular affection for Dingaling, who saved his life.
Canine hero
Dingo fights off bull to save her owner's life
By Diane Young
Missourian staff writer
WOOLDRIDGE, Mo. -The bluish-
-gray dog, oblivious of strang-ers,
stood on two hind feet at the
end of her chain and clasped her
owner's outstretched hand with her
front paws. Her lolling tongue and
frantic tail expressed her excite-ment,
while her square build and
alert eyes showed signs of strength
and intelligence.
"That there is the dog that saved
my life," said 67-year-- old breeder-train-er
Arnold Brady, with uncon-trolled
pride and a contagious grin.
His brown eyes warm and bright
behind glasses, Brady told of the
May 9 trauma that lingers not only
in his mind, but also in his slowly-healin- g
muscles and joints.
He said the morning began rou-tinely
enough Boonville auc-tioneer
and friend Ted Smith came
to help load IS head of cattle for
Bob Jones' cattle sale in Marshall.
Eleven calves were in the truck
when Brady went back to the house
to get his purebred dingo dog, a
cattle dog with Australian ances-tors,
to assist with the last four
calves who were giving the loaders
some trouble.
The dog, named Dingaling "be-cause
that's what she answers to,"
will herd any cow or bull no matter
IBKfiSfi!! SSSHmSk C VmiBDHPvSfVvLmfiHHHA ttiBr JtBPTtiflr.
Sally Slaplaton
Two of Brady's 100 dogs keep some of his cattle at bay. Bra-dy,
a trainer and breeder of the Australian dogs, is proud of
his four-year-ol- d business.
what, he said.
He reached down and pulled her
jaws open. "See them teeth?" he
asked. "They're like that from
herding cattle. If some cow won't
turn, Ding'll come up from the
side, jump clear up agin his back
and turn him, I ain't a-kid- din' ya."
A closer peer into the dog's
mouth revealed, to be sure, front
incisors that are worn about one--
third of the way to the gum.
Brady continued his story.
Two calves were loaded when
one 500-pou- nd angus-shortho- rn bull
calf veered off to the right of the
truck and tried to go over the block
gate and out of the barn.
Smith touched the calf on the
forehead with an electric cattle
probe, and Brady said it went cra-zy.
"That calf never been in a barn
before. Those calves are like 3-year-
-old
kids you put 'em in a
strange place, and if something up-sets
them, they go spastic.
' 'I knew that calf was gonna get
me, 'cuz he looked straight at me
and went 'berrr, berrr,' and bounc-ing
his front feet off the ground."
Brady says the calf, whose horns
were not dangerous because they
were only three to four inches long,
charged him.
Brady turned because "I knew if
he hit me from the front it'd par-alyze
me." The calf caught Brady
in the knee, butting him up against
the side of the barn.
In the excitement, Smith could
not get inside the gate to help.
Brady's shoulder hit the wall ; he
lost his balance and fell on his side,
his neck twisted and his head
lodged between a small trough and
the barn.
His rear end was open to the calf,
and it came again, pushing against
the immobilized man until Bradv
thought he would be crushed or his
neck would be broken.
"I ain't a-kidd- ing ya, I was
scared. I couldn't help myself, and
I couldn't get up so I just hollered,
'Ding ! ' and she come a-run- nin"
(See DOG, Page 14A)
Local attorneys call
court appointment
a timely selection
By April Witt
and Katnryn Kurzwefl
Missourian staff writers
Women attorneys in Columbia ex-pressed
delight but not surprise
Tuesday that President Reagan
nominated a woman to the Supreme
Court. Most felt it was about time.
"My reaction is: 'Hurray! I think
it's high time'," said Hilda Petri. "I
think it's in keeping with women's
increasing role in society. ' '
Rhonda Thomas, an associate pro-fessor
at the University School of
Law, said, "This is fantastic a
real breakthrough for women. As far
as I can see, it is a long overdue rec-ognition
for women, recognition that
we are the equals of men even in
areas as important as the Supreme
Court."
Although most women attorneys
believe this is a significant step, they
think Judge O'Connor's nomination
was more than a token gesture. They
stressed that her status as a compe-tent
judge should be more important
than her status as a woman judge.
"I would hope that this would be
interpreted not as a symbolic act,
but would be seen as merely the ap-pointment
of a very able judge who
just happens to be a woman," said
Ann Covington.
Betty Wilson expressed concern
that even consistently good perform-ance,
by male standards, might not
be enough.
"To be the first (woman on the Su
preme Court), she will have an
added burden," Mrs. Wilson said.
Circuit Court Judge Ellen Roper
said, "1 believe that, generally,
much more is expected of women be-cause
we are women. Of course, I
believe in a high level of perform-ance
for the judiciary and lawyers,
so that doesn't bother me. But I have
seen men overlook things in court,
and they have not had the same sort
of comments made about them that
they would have had were they wom-en
and had made the same over-sights.
"But this has become less and less
true in the last five years. There has
been real change."
Like Judge Roper, Mrs. Covington
stressed that Judge O'Connor's ap-pointment
would not particularly
change things for women in law be-cause
they are no longer discrimi-nated
against so often.
"Usually discrimination is inad-vertent,"
Mrs. Covington said. "Peo-ple
who refer to you as 'the little
woman' or 'young lady' are not try-ing
to be discriminatory or hurt your
feelings. They simply are unaware."
The consensus among the women
lawyers is that Judge O'Connor's ap-pointment
will make such people
more aware.
"This is a good thing for the coun-try,"
said Mrs. Covington. "It is es-pecially
good for those few who may
erroneously still believe that women
are not equal in all areas of the
law."
Firm seeking to fight
Cablevision in county
By Kevin Lickenbrock
and Wendy Tai
Missourian staff writers
A new cable television company,
apparently unaware that Columbia
Cablevision already has begun to ex-tend
its service beyond the city lim-its,
Tuesday requested permission
from the Boone County Court to
serve close-i- n Columbia suburbs.
The court scheduled an evening
public hearing for July 28 to discuss
the request of the recently formed
Boone County Cable Television Inc.
Columbia attorney Carl Sapp, one
of five current shareholders in the
company, said the new cable system
would provide service to unincorpo-rated,
"highly dense" areas within a
five-mi- le (eight-kilomete- r) radius of
the city limits.
The other shareholders include
Sapp's law partners, Scott Orr and
Larry Woods, Cable TV President
John Beatty and an electronic engi-neer,
Andy Anderson. Sapp declined
to say how many more shareholders
will join them.
Sapp, who appeared before the
court with Beatty and Anderson,
said the new company doesn't intend
to compete immediately with Colum-bia
Cablevision inside the city.
"The saturation in the inner city is
too great to compete with yet," Sapp
said. "But we're not saying that we
won't ask for city rights in the fu-ture."
However, should the County Court
approve Sapp's permit request, fee
new cable system could be in direct
competitition with Columbia Cable-visio- n,
which has already laid cable
in four subdivisions outside the city
limits.
J.C. Daniels, Cablevision general
manager, said service to Lake of the
Woods, El Chaparral, Germantown
and Georgetown will be available in
"a few weeks." Daniels said the four
areas were the most feasible and
profitable for his company and that
future plans include greater expan-sion.
He said potential competition from
Cable TV would not change Cablevi-sion'- s
expansion plans and that he
was not surprised a second cable
supplier entered the market because
"overall, the industry is very com-petitive."
Sapp said late Tuesday he was un-aware
that Cablevision had begun
construction to expand services out-side
Columbia. "I thought they
wanted to finish Columbia first.
There will be no change in our
plans."
Cable TV's plans include the satel- -
(See NEW, Page 14A)
On--f arm grain storage can aid farmers
ByJeffZiegler
Misscarian staff writer
Grain storage capacity on Mis-souri's
farms increased by more
than 37 million bushels in the last
half of the 1970s as farmers sought
more control over the marketing of
their grain.
In 1974, county Agricultural Stabi-lization
and Conservation Service of-fices
made only 183 grain-bi- n loans
to Missouri farmers, allowing on-far- m
storage capacity to increase by
just ova? 1 million bushels.
In 1978, the ASCS made 1,964
grain-bi- n loans, increasing the
state's cm-far-m storage capacity by
15.5 million bushels.
Since then, the level of storage
loans has leveled off. But University
farm experts say that is because
farmers who can afford and profit-ably
use storage bins already have
them.
"Farmers wanted more and more
control over the market so they
wouldn't be at its mercy," said Bur-ton
Wehmeyer, price support spe-cialist
for the ASCS. The desire for
storage is based on the usual market
price pattern, which has the lowest
market price for a grain from com-mercial
elevators right at harvest
time.
This year's low winter wheat
Insight
price, depressed by predictions of a
large harvest, is the most recent ex-ample.
And, an 8-y- ear study by
Richard Rudel, University agricul-tural
economist and grain specialist,
shows the general trend.
From 1972-7- 3 through 1SS0-8- 1 crop
years, winter wheat prices in June
averaged 12.77 a bushel while Jan-uary
and February prices, when no
new grain supplies were coming on
the market, averaged $3.31 per bush-el.
The average price gain merely by
holding grain beyond the market
glut at harvest time could net a
farmer an additional 54 cents per
bushel, or a 20 percent appreciation
in price for only seven or eight
months of storage.
Rudel said it is this marketing
flexibility that has attracted so
many Missouri farmers to devel-opment
of on--f arm storage facilities.
Rudel said the price fluctuates
throughout the year because of
changes in supply and demand. Gen-erally,
wheat demand is constant
throughout the year but supply hits
two peaks annually at the harvest
times for winter and spring wheat.
But constructing on-far- m storage
bins is not a guarantee of profit, he
said. Farmers should develop a mar-keting
sense to take advantage of
this flexibility. Sometimes these
marketing skills are needed to avoid
periods when the market does not
act in a normal fashion.
For example, the 1974-7- 5 market
year for soybeans was the opposite
of the normal pattern. Rudel said the
average price of soybeans near har-vest
time in October 1974 was $8.10
per bushel because international ex-port
dsroand was higher than the
supply could meet, even with the
new beans coming in from the fields.
Though the supply of soybeans di- -
(See GRAIN, Page 14A)
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In town
today
8:15 pjn. "The Misan-thrope,"
Summer Repertory
Theatre, University Theater",
tickets $4.
Movie listings on Page 13A
Easiness 13A
Classified. 1-- 4C
Opinioa . 4A
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73rd Year - No. 250 Good Morning! It's Wednesday, July 8, 1981 8 Sections - 46 Pages - 25 Cents
O'Connor's views on issues still vague
From our wire services
WASHINGTON Sandra D. O'Connor's
opinions during her 18 months as an Arizona
appeals court judge display careful rea-soning
and use of precedent.
But they shed little light on her attitude to-ward
most of the controversial constitutional
issues she will face if she is confirmed as an
associate justice of the Supreme Court.
President Reagan announced Tuesday he
will nominate Mrs. O'Connor, a former Re-publican
majority leader of the Arizona
State Senate, as the first woman on the Su-preme
Court. Reagan said the appointment,
which would break a tradition going back to
Washington, would be "one of the proudest
legacies of my presidency."
Reagan called the 51-year-- old Mrs. O'Con-nor,
who would replace Potter Stewart, "a
person for all seasons."
The nominee is widely regarded as conser-vative
in her political outlook. But her legis-lative
record has been attacked by anti-aborti- on
groups that say she cast pro-aborti- on
votes before she became a judge. These as-sertions
have been disputed by persons who
sat with her in the Arizona Legislature.
A review of Mrs. O'Connor's 30 published
opinions for the Arizona Court of Appeals
disclosed none dealing with abortion. Nor did
any of the opinions disclose her views on
most of the other controversial constitutional
issues the Supreme Court has ruled on, such
as busing as a means of desegregating
schools, prayer in schools, the death penalty,
affirmative action and the constitutional
rights of criminal defendants.
Thus, it appears to be far too early to de-termine
whether the ideologically divided
court will become more conservative or
more liberal if and when Mrs. O'Connor fills
the vacancy created by the retirement of As-sociate
Justice Potter Stewart. Stewart has
been viewed as a moderate leaning to the
conservative side of the court's philosophical
balance.
Tuesday after Reagan had announced
Mrs. O'Connor as his choice, Attorney Gen-eral
William French Smith said O'Connor
shared the president's "overall judicial phi-losophy"
of "restraint" and deference to the
legislative branch in making law.
A recently published law review article by
Mrs. O'Connor lends some support to the at-torney
general's view.
The article, in the William and Mary Law
Review, dealt with the relationship between
state and federal courts. Mrs. O'Connor cit-ed
with approval recent Supreme Court deci-sions
requiring federal judges to defer to
some initial determinations by state court
judges.
She singled out a recent decision by Asso- -
date Justice William H. Rehnquist, her for-mer
law school classmate. This decision
holds that when a federal court considers a
constitutional challenge to a state criminal
conviction, it should ordinarily presume that
the state court's factual findings were cor-rect.
"There is no reason to assume," Mrs.
O'Connor wrote, "that state court judges
cannot and will not provide a hospitable fo-rum
in litigating federal constitutional ques-tions."
Mrs. O'Connor also suggested that in view
of the increasing caseload of the federal
(See COURT, Page 14A)
Sally Staplcton
Owner of 100 dogs, Arnold Brady displays a particular affection for Dingaling, who saved his life.
Canine hero
Dingo fights off bull to save her owner's life
By Diane Young
Missourian staff writer
WOOLDRIDGE, Mo. -The bluish-
-gray dog, oblivious of strang-ers,
stood on two hind feet at the
end of her chain and clasped her
owner's outstretched hand with her
front paws. Her lolling tongue and
frantic tail expressed her excite-ment,
while her square build and
alert eyes showed signs of strength
and intelligence.
"That there is the dog that saved
my life," said 67-year-- old breeder-train-er
Arnold Brady, with uncon-trolled
pride and a contagious grin.
His brown eyes warm and bright
behind glasses, Brady told of the
May 9 trauma that lingers not only
in his mind, but also in his slowly-healin- g
muscles and joints.
He said the morning began rou-tinely
enough Boonville auc-tioneer
and friend Ted Smith came
to help load IS head of cattle for
Bob Jones' cattle sale in Marshall.
Eleven calves were in the truck
when Brady went back to the house
to get his purebred dingo dog, a
cattle dog with Australian ances-tors,
to assist with the last four
calves who were giving the loaders
some trouble.
The dog, named Dingaling "be-cause
that's what she answers to,"
will herd any cow or bull no matter
IBKfiSfi!! SSSHmSk C VmiBDHPvSfVvLmfiHHHA ttiBr JtBPTtiflr.
Sally Slaplaton
Two of Brady's 100 dogs keep some of his cattle at bay. Bra-dy,
a trainer and breeder of the Australian dogs, is proud of
his four-year-ol- d business.
what, he said.
He reached down and pulled her
jaws open. "See them teeth?" he
asked. "They're like that from
herding cattle. If some cow won't
turn, Ding'll come up from the
side, jump clear up agin his back
and turn him, I ain't a-kid- din' ya."
A closer peer into the dog's
mouth revealed, to be sure, front
incisors that are worn about one--
third of the way to the gum.
Brady continued his story.
Two calves were loaded when
one 500-pou- nd angus-shortho- rn bull
calf veered off to the right of the
truck and tried to go over the block
gate and out of the barn.
Smith touched the calf on the
forehead with an electric cattle
probe, and Brady said it went cra-zy.
"That calf never been in a barn
before. Those calves are like 3-year-
-old
kids you put 'em in a
strange place, and if something up-sets
them, they go spastic.
' 'I knew that calf was gonna get
me, 'cuz he looked straight at me
and went 'berrr, berrr,' and bounc-ing
his front feet off the ground."
Brady says the calf, whose horns
were not dangerous because they
were only three to four inches long,
charged him.
Brady turned because "I knew if
he hit me from the front it'd par-alyze
me." The calf caught Brady
in the knee, butting him up against
the side of the barn.
In the excitement, Smith could
not get inside the gate to help.
Brady's shoulder hit the wall ; he
lost his balance and fell on his side,
his neck twisted and his head
lodged between a small trough and
the barn.
His rear end was open to the calf,
and it came again, pushing against
the immobilized man until Bradv
thought he would be crushed or his
neck would be broken.
"I ain't a-kidd- ing ya, I was
scared. I couldn't help myself, and
I couldn't get up so I just hollered,
'Ding ! ' and she come a-run- nin"
(See DOG, Page 14A)
Local attorneys call
court appointment
a timely selection
By April Witt
and Katnryn Kurzwefl
Missourian staff writers
Women attorneys in Columbia ex-pressed
delight but not surprise
Tuesday that President Reagan
nominated a woman to the Supreme
Court. Most felt it was about time.
"My reaction is: 'Hurray! I think
it's high time'," said Hilda Petri. "I
think it's in keeping with women's
increasing role in society. ' '
Rhonda Thomas, an associate pro-fessor
at the University School of
Law, said, "This is fantastic a
real breakthrough for women. As far
as I can see, it is a long overdue rec-ognition
for women, recognition that
we are the equals of men even in
areas as important as the Supreme
Court."
Although most women attorneys
believe this is a significant step, they
think Judge O'Connor's nomination
was more than a token gesture. They
stressed that her status as a compe-tent
judge should be more important
than her status as a woman judge.
"I would hope that this would be
interpreted not as a symbolic act,
but would be seen as merely the ap-pointment
of a very able judge who
just happens to be a woman," said
Ann Covington.
Betty Wilson expressed concern
that even consistently good perform-ance,
by male standards, might not
be enough.
"To be the first (woman on the Su
preme Court), she will have an
added burden," Mrs. Wilson said.
Circuit Court Judge Ellen Roper
said, "1 believe that, generally,
much more is expected of women be-cause
we are women. Of course, I
believe in a high level of perform-ance
for the judiciary and lawyers,
so that doesn't bother me. But I have
seen men overlook things in court,
and they have not had the same sort
of comments made about them that
they would have had were they wom-en
and had made the same over-sights.
"But this has become less and less
true in the last five years. There has
been real change."
Like Judge Roper, Mrs. Covington
stressed that Judge O'Connor's ap-pointment
would not particularly
change things for women in law be-cause
they are no longer discrimi-nated
against so often.
"Usually discrimination is inad-vertent,"
Mrs. Covington said. "Peo-ple
who refer to you as 'the little
woman' or 'young lady' are not try-ing
to be discriminatory or hurt your
feelings. They simply are unaware."
The consensus among the women
lawyers is that Judge O'Connor's ap-pointment
will make such people
more aware.
"This is a good thing for the coun-try,"
said Mrs. Covington. "It is es-pecially
good for those few who may
erroneously still believe that women
are not equal in all areas of the
law."
Firm seeking to fight
Cablevision in county
By Kevin Lickenbrock
and Wendy Tai
Missourian staff writers
A new cable television company,
apparently unaware that Columbia
Cablevision already has begun to ex-tend
its service beyond the city lim-its,
Tuesday requested permission
from the Boone County Court to
serve close-i- n Columbia suburbs.
The court scheduled an evening
public hearing for July 28 to discuss
the request of the recently formed
Boone County Cable Television Inc.
Columbia attorney Carl Sapp, one
of five current shareholders in the
company, said the new cable system
would provide service to unincorpo-rated,
"highly dense" areas within a
five-mi- le (eight-kilomete- r) radius of
the city limits.
The other shareholders include
Sapp's law partners, Scott Orr and
Larry Woods, Cable TV President
John Beatty and an electronic engi-neer,
Andy Anderson. Sapp declined
to say how many more shareholders
will join them.
Sapp, who appeared before the
court with Beatty and Anderson,
said the new company doesn't intend
to compete immediately with Colum-bia
Cablevision inside the city.
"The saturation in the inner city is
too great to compete with yet," Sapp
said. "But we're not saying that we
won't ask for city rights in the fu-ture."
However, should the County Court
approve Sapp's permit request, fee
new cable system could be in direct
competitition with Columbia Cable-visio- n,
which has already laid cable
in four subdivisions outside the city
limits.
J.C. Daniels, Cablevision general
manager, said service to Lake of the
Woods, El Chaparral, Germantown
and Georgetown will be available in
"a few weeks." Daniels said the four
areas were the most feasible and
profitable for his company and that
future plans include greater expan-sion.
He said potential competition from
Cable TV would not change Cablevi-sion'- s
expansion plans and that he
was not surprised a second cable
supplier entered the market because
"overall, the industry is very com-petitive."
Sapp said late Tuesday he was un-aware
that Cablevision had begun
construction to expand services out-side
Columbia. "I thought they
wanted to finish Columbia first.
There will be no change in our
plans."
Cable TV's plans include the satel- -
(See NEW, Page 14A)
On--f arm grain storage can aid farmers
ByJeffZiegler
Misscarian staff writer
Grain storage capacity on Mis-souri's
farms increased by more
than 37 million bushels in the last
half of the 1970s as farmers sought
more control over the marketing of
their grain.
In 1974, county Agricultural Stabi-lization
and Conservation Service of-fices
made only 183 grain-bi- n loans
to Missouri farmers, allowing on-far- m
storage capacity to increase by
just ova? 1 million bushels.
In 1978, the ASCS made 1,964
grain-bi- n loans, increasing the
state's cm-far-m storage capacity by
15.5 million bushels.
Since then, the level of storage
loans has leveled off. But University
farm experts say that is because
farmers who can afford and profit-ably
use storage bins already have
them.
"Farmers wanted more and more
control over the market so they
wouldn't be at its mercy," said Bur-ton
Wehmeyer, price support spe-cialist
for the ASCS. The desire for
storage is based on the usual market
price pattern, which has the lowest
market price for a grain from com-mercial
elevators right at harvest
time.
This year's low winter wheat
Insight
price, depressed by predictions of a
large harvest, is the most recent ex-ample.
And, an 8-y- ear study by
Richard Rudel, University agricul-tural
economist and grain specialist,
shows the general trend.
From 1972-7- 3 through 1SS0-8- 1 crop
years, winter wheat prices in June
averaged 12.77 a bushel while Jan-uary
and February prices, when no
new grain supplies were coming on
the market, averaged $3.31 per bush-el.
The average price gain merely by
holding grain beyond the market
glut at harvest time could net a
farmer an additional 54 cents per
bushel, or a 20 percent appreciation
in price for only seven or eight
months of storage.
Rudel said it is this marketing
flexibility that has attracted so
many Missouri farmers to devel-opment
of on--f arm storage facilities.
Rudel said the price fluctuates
throughout the year because of
changes in supply and demand. Gen-erally,
wheat demand is constant
throughout the year but supply hits
two peaks annually at the harvest
times for winter and spring wheat.
But constructing on-far- m storage
bins is not a guarantee of profit, he
said. Farmers should develop a mar-keting
sense to take advantage of
this flexibility. Sometimes these
marketing skills are needed to avoid
periods when the market does not
act in a normal fashion.
For example, the 1974-7- 5 market
year for soybeans was the opposite
of the normal pattern. Rudel said the
average price of soybeans near har-vest
time in October 1974 was $8.10
per bushel because international ex-port
dsroand was higher than the
supply could meet, even with the
new beans coming in from the fields.
Though the supply of soybeans di- -
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